This morning, not an hour after tweeting my excitement, I received a surprise in my inbox: an invite to Google+. Though the timing was sheer coincidence (no, Google is not reading my tweets, or my mind…yet), the semi-instant gratification was pleasing. After a quick login (including a checkbox giving Google+ permission to access your Picasa […]
Facebook has long claimed that their community policing system cannot be gamed, and that pages are not automatically removed for TOS violations, despite evidence to the contrary. Today, more evidence, as famed critic and blogger Roger Ebert’s Facebook Page is removed, allegedly for being “hateful, threatening, or obscene.” As Ebert writes, he was recently the […]
How did a Syrian blogger, who told beautiful and heartwrenching stories of life as a lesbian in Damascus, manage to trick so many people? How did an American software engineer, whose passion for the Iranian cause led him to build what he dubbed the safest of circumvention tools, do the same? The stories of Amina […]